A man who was involved in a crash on the A120 died after another car drifted onto the wrong side of the road and collided with his vehicle.

An inquest today (Thursday, April 12), heard how Aironas Jonas Gzimaila, 23 and from Harwich, was driving along the A120 on March 27, when a vehicle driving in the opposite direction across the centre of the road and collided with Mr Gzimaila's Ford Fiesta.

Police and paramedics attended the scene but he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

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A post-mortem was carried out which confirmed Mr Gzimaila's cause of death was multiple injuries awaiting a toxicology report.

Senior Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray did not fix a date for the full inquest as an active police investigation continues into the circumstances surrounding the collision, adding that the police may need to take advice from the Crown Prosecution Service if they are considering a charge.